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carpal joint is very much enlarged and is produced on the inside, at 

 the outer distal end, in a long, acute process, between which and the 



articulation of the propodus are two long 

 acute processes about half as long as the 

 outer process. The propodus is similar 

 to that of the female; the dactylus is b.i- 

 unguiculate. 



A number of specimens, both males and 

 females, were collected by Prof. A. E. Ver- 

 rill and party in 1898, at Castle Harbor. 

 Bermudas. 



Type specimens in Peabody Museum, Yale 

 University. Cat. Nos. 3194 and 3261. 



JANIRA OCCIDENTALIS Walker. 



Janira ocddentalis WALKER, Trans. Liverpool 

 Biol. Soc., XII, 1898, pp. 280-281, pi. xv, figs. 

 7-10. RICHARDSOX, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 XXI, 1899, p. 859; Ann. Mag. N,at. Hist. 

 (7), IV, 1899, p. 326; American Naturalist, 

 XXXIV, 1900, p. 300; Harriman Alaska Exp., 

 Crust., X, 1904, p. 224; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 XXVII, 1904, p. 667. 



Locality. Puget Sound, Washington. 

 Body oblong-ovate, three times longer 

 than wide, 2 mm. :6 mm. 

 Head, about twice as wide as long, with the anterior margin sinuate, 

 but not produced in a frontal median process. The lateral margins 

 are straight, with the antero-lateral angles a little produced and 

 rounded and the post-lateral angles rounded. The eyes are large, 



FIG. 526. JANIKA OCCIDENTALIS 

 (AFTER WALKER), a, HEAD AND 

 FIRST THORACIC SEGMENT. b, 

 ABDOMEN AND PART OF PREVIOUS 

 SEGMENT OF THORAX. 



FIG. 527. JANIRA OCCIDENTALIS. a, ABDOMEN WITH UROPODA.O 6, MAXILIIPED. x 51| c, MANDI- 

 BLE, x 61|. d, FIRST LEG. x 27}. 



round, composite, and dorsally placed. The first pair of antennae 

 have the first and third articles about equal in length; the second is 



The outer branch of both uropoda is broken off and lost in the only specimen of 

 the U. S. National Museum collection. 



